. . .when this reader sees what’s going on overseas:

What seems harsh to me here is the fact that the average Scotch worker would be precluded from being able to afford private health care, because they could not afford to contribute both their tax dollars to the “National Health Service” and their remaining earnings to a private plan. The article states that the “National Health Service” is spending the available money for the benefit of the majority and that the cancer victims more or less have to be sacrificed (my own choice of words) for the good of all.

It amazes me that nations always seem to find the money for wars, no matter how high the price tag, yet health care is budgeted even if people die because of it. Anyway, this is something going on in Scotland, that we in the US, of course have no control over. But as we ponder the prospects of adopting universal health care in the US, we should at least wonder if we too would end up with a “National Health Service” that too would play God.